Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software

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Simon South

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Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software

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Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:46 -0400

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 14:48 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> From the above I gather than the language part of Delphi is basically
> the same as Free Pascal, so maybe we could rename it free-pascal.el?
Well, it's only one of several dialects Free Pascal understands (and not
the default). The actual name of the language is Object Pascal, so how
about object-pascal.el?
> OK. Indeed from looking at them there didn't seem to be much shared
> ancestry. Do you happen to know what major dialect of Pascal is
> supported by pascal-mode?
No... I'd assume it's standard Pascal (ISO 7185) but I don't know for
sure. (Actually, if it isn't, it probably should be.)
> Merging seems difficult, indeed. But at least from what you say, it
> seems like it would be desirable to try and shape future changes so as
> to reduce the differences rather than increase them.
Agreed!
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Simon South
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